Saturday, January 25, 2014

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I've just forced Tikkun Daily to blanket-IP-block the entirety of Philadelphia, apparently, by tearing their precious anti-Zionst, enabler of antisemites, David Harris-Gershon, to shreds in his latest screed.

Half a dozen of my comments were deleted, and since I was on my phone I didn't get screen grabs. But it was good times. Heh.

In particular, note his outrage against my alleged 'personal attacks' (I did no such thing there, aside from making a couple of obvious observations which didn't reflect well on the man), while the entirety of his response to the two remaining comments of mine still standing consist mainly of... personal attacks on me, and ad hominem arguments against a source (Adam Levick) I used.

It's kind of disappointing in a way, actually. I was really hoping he'd be a strong opponent worth serious debate, but in the end he turned out to be nothing more than a silly tool, just like all the other BDSers out there...

At least there are some others there to confront him. He cannot delete all the comments. He seems very thin skinned, but he does not have the courage to engage in the dialogue he calls for. Instead he convinces himself that he is courageous and the other keyboard cowards praise him.

He obfuscates from serious dialogue and serves as a propagandist for antisemitic elements. The effect of his one sided, Israel is always wrong, America sucks, too, kind of mentality, rather than helping Palestinians (who he holds to a lower moral standard), makes it harder to be a Jew on this planet.

When I think of a moral narcissist his posts come to mind. Perhaps that is why he is so intolerant to allow criticism except superficially.

Tried to murder. She was injured, and friends of hers were among the nine killed in the 2002 Hebrew University cafeteria terrorist bombing. As it turns out, I'm now going to attend one of Mr. Harris-Gershon's talks in my city in May, and have a discussion with him afterward over a couple of beers.

Doing my part to live up to my own professed ideals. I'm like Governor Fred Picker in Primary Colors. Heh. I want us all to calm, and quiet, down, and talk to each other about things. I've admittedly been a massive failure at that at times, but every once in a while I surprise myself.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish